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luminariouson Svelte5: A Less Favorable Vue3

Pug templates have been the most readable in my projects. Underappreciated imho, wish Astro also supported it.

luminariouson Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

This seems like something that could be automated with code? It feels like a genuinely useful way of solving highlighting for most common use cases.

luminariouson Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://hardi.design

I've had some form of personal site for more than 15 years now, usually with a hand-coded theme. It's unremarkable technically, but as a UX designer, it certainly gives me more confidence that I know how the web works.

Made with Saber (Vue.js) using Vercel.

luminariouson Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers

Do you mean images and media, since these could be avoided/ mitigated? Or do you mean the browser itself won't work in a constrained environment?

luminariouson Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?

Inter UI is quite impressive as far as usability goes: https://rsms.me/inter/

luminariouson Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26

Why can't they just charge for it?

luminariouson N64 object software renderer in 512 lines

How many lines of WebGL would it be?

luminariouson Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?

http://javascript.info starts out simple enough for complete beginners but goes deep enough that even intermediate users can find new details.

luminariouson A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You

For websites, http://l20n.org seems the most natural version so far. Or is there something better?

luminariouson The Lethality of Loneliness

I'm a fan of HabitRPG[1], been using it since the very first public version. It allows you set both positive and negative habits which you then track daily. Mobile app is coming soon, I hear.

[1] http://habitrpg.com

luminariouson Nice HTML5/GLSL explosion demo

It's rather hypnotizing like that. I wouldn't mind having a fireball like that as my desktop background. Never mind the resource usage and all that, because this has character!

luminariouson Fear and Loathing and Windows 8

I don't recall when I last used the start menu to turn off the computer. I have a button on my laptop and pressing it hibernates the computer. Very handy.

luminariouson Windows 8 Release Preview ready for download

It's using Metro as well.. http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/31/microsoft-outs-windows-se...

luminariouson Programming as a Foreign Language

For a lot of the world population, english, as common as it may be in programming, is still a foreign language. People less fluent in English are that much less likely to try scripting something. Not only would the language keywords make little to no sense, but the supporting materials and comments as well.

luminariouson Incredibox - Background music for programming.

These are a lot better than anything else I've heard today. I'd greatly appreciate anything else that evokes a similar mood.

luminariouson Opera Confirms WebKit Prefix Usage

I'm sorry, but I fail to understand your grief about Opera. They've been nothing if not standard compliant since before most people had internet access. Not to mention the huge amount of not-PC-hardware they have provided a browser for (Opera Mini for feature phones, Opera for TV's with internet, Opera for Nintendo DS, DSi, 3DS)

I may be biased as long-time users often are, but they're definitely not comparable to the plague that is IE.

luminariouson Opera Confirms WebKit Prefix Usage

I wonder how this will affect those who have started using javascript aids like http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/

At this point there are enough prefixes to make manually adding each more than a bit pointless.

luminariouson Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox

This feature, although turned off by default, has been available in Opera for some time now. I quite like it.

luminariouson We're in an icon-sharpness limbo

As SVG supports CSS and Media Queries, it's possible to optimize the display for different display sizes. Like demonstrated here: http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2009/10/12/how-media-queries-a...

luminariouson About those vector icons

But doesn't SVG support CSS Media Queries? That would make it more than possible to support showing/ hiding appropriate elements/ layers according to the current dpi, width/ height, orientation or whatever?

luminariouson CSS Shader - Adobe brings WebGL to CSS

Well, this would certainly fit my workflow. Because I'm not a 3D-programmer and this approach is a much better fit for the casual 2D-games I want to make.

luminariouson Why QR Codes Are Here To Stay

Please, can someone give a good reason why the bundled camera apps are not supporting QR codes? For an average user, it would be the easiest option to just use the camera on the phone. Less friction and so on.

luminariouson Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

Max number of streams reached for my country. Who knew there are so many Notch fans in Estonia.

luminariouson Opera Mobile Emulator

It's about the easiest way to test a website on a mobile browser, in my opinion.

luminariouson Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?

In daily use, it seems pretty much the other way around. Opera supports standards, but everyone else goes beyond them.

Also, it's about time feature detection became mainstream because whitelisting certain browsers almost always means forgetting about Opera.

luminariouson Open source graphic design

Yes, these programs have existed for a number of years, slowly improving and getting better. But every time I try to use them.. they feel clunky. There is just too much friction when I try to do the simple things. Maybe it's because I'm used to PS and AI, but I think Gimp and Inkscape would both be much better received if they invested more into being easy to use/ good-looking. Much like Sketchup did for 3D, where building basic models is easy and complex models possible.

luminariouson Harvard Classics Bookshelf

Is there a better list available that you'd recommend? Because the idea of a curated list of books to read appeals to the lazy side in me. I like reading but not researching what to read..

luminariouson Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups create better discussions?

It would be fun if this approach was also used for the Google+ Circles, so you could have anonymous conversations within a circle.

luminariouson Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

Note that a large number of these are apps stores. I can imagine the licencing fees or whatnot being the showstoppers for audio/video, but what on earth is so difficult about selling applications?